Diabetes Medical Affairs Professional

At Lilly, we unite caring with discovery to make life better for people around the world. We are a global healthcare leader headquartered in Indianapolis, Indiana. Our employees around the world work to discover and bring life-changing medicines to those who need them, improve the understanding and management of disease, and give back to our communities through philanthropy and volunteerism. We give our best effort to our work, and we put people first. We’re looking for people who are determined to make life better for people around the world.

**Organization Overview**:
Lilly has been a global leader in diabetes care since 1923, when we introduced the world's first commercial insulin. We’ve come a long way over the last century, including our latest innovation - the first new class of type 2 diabetes medicines in more than a decade. But we’re not stopping there. As the prevalence of diabetes continues to grow around the world, we need new approaches to transform care, improve treatment access and provide education to those navigating this disease every day. The needs of people with type 2 diabetes continue to evolve over time, and treatment approaches need to reflect that. Our cutting-edge research is focused on disrupting the progression of the disease to improve care and outcomes — allowing people with diabetes to live full, active, and healthy lives.

For this challenging and ambitious purpose, we are currently looking for a Medical Affairs Professional (MAP) for the Italian market.

Reporting to Diabetes Medical Director, the primary focus of the MAP will be to use the individual’s knowledge of specific disease states, available treatments, and investigational compounds to help deliver strategic/tactical thinking and lifecycle planning. The MAP plays an important role in the cross-functional partnership with the brand team to meet both external customer and internal business needs.

**Responsibilities**:

- Brand Team Support:

- ** Key Medical Point of Contact**: Provide clinical, scientific, and strategic input to support the cross-functional team, contribute to the development of local brand plans and medical strategies, and effectively communicate relevant medical and scientific information.
- ** Support and Oversight**: Support medical launches, oversee patient support programs, address the medical training needs of internal business partners, and plan and implement educational events and scientific exchanges with healthcare professionals.
- Scientific Expertise and Medical Affairs Delivery
- ** Scientific Expertise and Strategy Development**: Develop and contribute to medical plans and strategies, support data analysis and publication development, and stay current with medical and scientific developments relevant to the therapeutic area.
- ** Medical Affairs and Collaboration**: Partner with other medical affairs roles to deliver exceptional customer experiences, create and review medical letters, support scientific data disclosure, and stay informed about trends and issues in clinical practice and access.
- Customer Support and Experience:

- ** Customer Support and Engagement**: Respond to external customer questions and needs, coordinate activities and engagement with Thought Leaders, provide speaker training, and deliver scientific, educational, and promotional presentations both internally and to customers.
- ** Leadership and Innovation**: Collaborate cross-functionally to enhance customer engagement through digital innovation, take a leadership role in delivering positive customer experiences, and ensure presentations at promotional meetings are limited to a manageable number per month.

**Requirements**:

- Master’s degree in health sciences (PharmD, M.D., Ph.D. in a medically related field)
- 2-3 years of relevant clinical or therapeutic experience desired
- Full proficient English knowledge

**Additional Skills/Preferences**:

- Strong presentation and influencing skills, targeting a diverse audience including agencies, customers, and internal stakeholders
- Ability to execute and accelerate with excellent organizational and implementation skills
- Ability to work in and with a proactive team with a high degree of customer focus
- Business acumen
- Ability to 'translate' scientific data into meaningful, clear and compliant content for customer communications and engagement
- Ability to effectively partner across multiple functions including but not limited to Marketing, Global Patient Safety (GPS), Compliance, Legal, Regulatory, PRA, and HTA.
- Effective, leadership and ability to influence, including upward
- Ability to manage and prioritize different topics/tasks, also of a complex nature

**Additional Information**:

- Location: Sesto Fiorentino
- Travel percentage: 30%
- Fixed term contract: 12 months

Lilly does not discriminate on the basis of age, race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, national origin, protected veteran